Profession
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A public declaration respecting something.
Code, 10. 41. 6.
A state, art, or mystery; as, the legal profession.
Dig. 1. 18. 6. 4; Domat, Dr. Pub. lib. 1, tit. 9, §1, note 7. See 41 Mich. 155.
In Ecclesiastical Law. The act of entering into a religious order.
See 17 Viner, Abr. 545.